Five items on the New Hampshire football landscape:

1. Plymouth State is still practicing

Plymouth State University is one of 32 teams in this year's NCAA Division III playoffs. The sixth-seeded Panthers (10-1) earned an automatic berth by beating Maine Maritime, 46-16, in the New England Football Conference championship game last Saturday, and will play at third-seeded Cortland State (9-1) Saturday.The Red Dragons earned an automatic berth by winning the New Jersey Athletic Conference title with a 9-0 record. The tournament field is divided into four eight-team brackets.

2. Familiar faces in different places

The participants in this year's Division I and Division II championship games are the same as they were a year ago: Nashua South vs. Pinkerton in Division I, and Exeter vs. Bishop Guertin in Division ll. Saturday's games will be played in Derry (Division I) and Nashua (Division II). Pinkerton beat Nashua South, 14-2, in Nashua to win last year's Division I title. Exeter won the Division II championship by beating BG, 14-13, in Exeter.

3. Rod Wotton

Rod Wotton recorded his 100th victory since becoming the head coach at St. Thomas when the Saints beat Trinity, 21-15, in Saturday's Division V semifinals. Third-seeded St. Thomas (8-2) will face top-seeded Pelham (10-0) in Saturday's championship game. Wotton, the winningest coach in New England high school football history, will enter that game with a 331-69-3 career record, and will be trying to collect his 22nd state championship.

Wotton guided St. Thomas to the Division IV championship in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2006. He also won 17 state titles when he was the head coach at Marshwood High School in Eliot, Maine. The football field in Eliot is named after Wotton, and, when he decides to retire, the St. Thomas football field should be named after him as well.

4. Plenty at stake for UNH 

The University of New Hampshire (8-2 overall, 5-2 Colonial Athletic Association) can secure its fifth consecutive Football Championship Subdivision playoff berth by beating Maine in Maine on Saturday. The Black Bears (8-3, 5-2) stretched their winning streak to six games with a 37-7 victory over Rhode Island on Saturday.

5. Mack sets record

Former Milford High School standout Jeff Mack set Plymouth State's single-season rushing record in Saturday's victory over Maine Maritime. Mack rushed for 139 yards to push his season total to 1,679. Joe Dudek, who rushed for 1,615 yards in 1985, held the previous record.